Achilles (son of Zeus)

In Greek mythology, Achilleus ([akʰilˈleu̯s]; Ἀχιλλεύς) was the son of Zeus and Lamia, and the main subject of a minor myth.[1]

This article is about a son of Zeus. For Other uses, see Acheilus. For the Trojan war hero, see Achilles.

Mythology

Acheilus was a man of an irresistible beauty, and won a beauty contest judged by Pan, the god of wilderness. Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love, was irritated and so she made Pan fall in love with the nymph Echo, who spurned him, and made Acheilus become as ugly and unattractive as he had been pretty and attractive.[2]

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Notes
  1. Photios (1824). "190.489R". In Bekker, August Immanuel (ed.). Myriobiblon (in Greek). Vol. Tomus alter. Berlin: Ge. Reimer. p. 152a. At the Internet Archive. "190.152a" (PDF). Myriobiblon (in Greek). Interreg Δρόμοι της πίστης – Ψηφιακή Πατρολογία. 2006. p. 163. At khazarzar.skeptik.net.
  2. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 6 as cited in Photius, Myriobiblon 190


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